[Box Backup] Housekeeping warning and install problems

Roy boxbackup at hostingbrothers.nl
Mon Sep 20 10:58:28 BST 2010


  Hi Dave,

Op 17-9-2010 10:52, Dave Bamford schreef:
> Hi Roy
>
> I got the same error, but in english and I assumed it was because I 
> was upgrading
> instead of a new install and the conf file already existed in 
> /etc/boxbackup
Maybe, but I renamed the directories a couple of times, so sometimes 
/etc/boxbackup did exist and other times it did not. Always I got the error.
>
> Also got the housekeeping messages, but once it had finished one pass of
> housekeeping they have gone away.
I don't see them anymore, so I think you're right.
>
> The refcount problems can be overcome by doing a check of the store.
> bbstoreaccounts nnn check fix
>
> The good news is that the backups are working well and much faster for
> me because I use a replicated NFS store to keep the files and back up from
> a different machine running Debian with Debian virtual machines running
> on KVM/QEMU. This works well because I can also back up the virtual 
> machine
> image to the NFS store.
>
> All I need now is support for VSS for my windows clients.
>
> Regards
>
> Dave

Cheers,

Roy

>
>
>
>
> Roy wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After upgrading the server side of Box Backup to the latest version, I got a lot of the following warnings:
>> bbstored/hk[3645]: WARNING: Reference count of object 0x43abd changed from 1 to 0
>>
>> I don't know why this is. Has it to do with that files are not referenced anymore, and thus are deleted on disk and later on the store?
>>
>> And in the previous e-mail I said that the install routine after compiling gave some errors, but I didn't get any response on that.
>> This is what I said earlier:
>> Unfortunately it doesn't install the server correctly:
>> box:~/box/0.11_svn/boxbackup-0.11# make install-backup-server
>> (cd parcels/boxbackup-0.11-backup-server-linux-gnu;
>> ./install-backup-server)
>> install: kan stat niet toepassen op `bbstored.conf': Onbekend bestand of map
>> install: kan stat niet toepassen op `raidfile.conf': Onbekend bestand of map 
>>
>> It's in Dutch, don't know how to get this in English? But it says that
>> it cannot use stat on bbstored.conf and raidfile.conf. They both
>> exist, but in /etc/box and not somewhere in /usr/local. Could that be
>> the problem? I'm running the command as root btw.
>>
>> When I put the configuration files in /usr/local/etc/box, it still
>> fails with the same error.
>>
>> And:
>> It installs bbstored correctly, but I'm unsure if everything works
>> correctly now. I saw that the default location of the configuration
>> files changed to/etc/boxbackup/, so I changed it also. But the make
>> install still fails with the same error. But now I can start bbstored
>> again. Only with the following warning:
>>
>> Sep 14 12:39:08 box bbstored[3642]: NOTICE: Box Backup Store Server
>> v0.11, (c) Ben Summers and contributors 2003-2010
>> Sep 14 12:39:08 box bbstored[3644]: NOTICE: Starting daemon, version: 0.11
>> Sep 14 12:39:08 box bbstored[3644]: NOTICE: Using configuration file:
>> /etc/boxbackup/bbstored.conf
>> Sep 14 12:39:09 box bbstored/hk[3645]: WARNING: Failed to open file:
>> /home/bbstored//backup/00000001/refcount.db.rfw: No such file or
>> directory (2)
>> Sep 14 12:39:09 box bbstored/hk[3645]: WARNING: Exception thrown:
>> CommonException(OSFileOpenError) at FileStream.cpp(144)
>> Sep 14 12:39:09 box bbstored/hk[3645]: WARNING: Reference count database
>> is missing or corrupted during housekeeping, creating a new one.
>>
>> It says it creating a new one, so I think I don't have to worry. 
>> But is this the expected behavior?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Roy
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